Re: Shiseido's Basara: how to describe it?

Tongues of fire licking a totem of utter manhood.

It is everything you mentioned plus Japanese incense and handful of other elements. So masculine and so elegant at that. It's spicy a lil with a bit of soapiness in its intro. It's dark yet uplifting. Quite sensuous like the vaginal symbol on the packaging.

Re: Shiseido's Basala: how to describe it?

Where L'Artisan Passage d'enfer reminds so many of church, for me, Basala conjurs up the Shinto equivalent. The polished wood of an waxed ancient tansu. The green froth of whipped tea in a a raku bowl. The barely audible whisper of a silk kimono. The incense smoke from a small hibatichi wafting through the cracks of the sliding paper screens. The sap of a Japanese black pine.

Re: Shiseido's Basala: how to describe it?

Originally Posted by Griff

Where L'Artisan Passage d'enfer reminds so many of church, for me, Basala conjurs up the Shinto equivalent. The polished wood of an waxed ancient tansu. The green froth of whipped tea in a a raku bowl. The barely audible whisper of a silk kimono. The incense smoke from a small hibatichi wafting through the cracks of the sliding paper screens. The sap of a Japanese black pine.

Griff

Wow, I was taken to a different place! It remeninds me of fond memories.